Wednesday 28 September 2011

Titles

Back to Applied Illustration Practice, looking at the title of each chapter and how they can be visualised.





Fully Expanded

Finished the silhouette illustration I was working on.


Definately think that this idea con really be developed and hope to continue with it.

Tuesday 27 September 2011

The Head Expands

So continuing with my personal work I have added to the Silhouette head illustration.



Personal work

This is some work that I have started just for fun. Mainly to get back in to drawing regularly again.



Monday 26 September 2011

So...

Completed the three images for the second of the two chapters.


More!!

Continuing yet again with Applied Illustration Practice.




Sunday 25 September 2011

More!

So continuing with Applied Illustration. Firts idea for The Soldier in the Trees.

Still got two more to go.

And it Continues

So I've continued with the Applied Illustration Practice brief.




So this is the initial ideas for half of the project - The Fog when chapter. so still need to complete the inital ideas of the other chapter The Soldier in the Trees.

Saturday 24 September 2011

The Start

So time to start working. First things First though a sketch book for Applied Illustration Practice. I got this book at a local charity shop and am going to use it instead of a normal sketch book. The main reason being that it is cheaper really as this only cost 99 pence.

The brief for the Applied Illustration is to create two illustrations that would be used at the start of two chapters in the book The sliver Donkey by Sonya Hartnett. The two chapters are The Fog When and The Soldier in the Trees. I started by writing these up and highlighted words that I thought would be important or useful.



Next I started to look at the imagery used in the story that I could uses. Trying different images and techniques. The illustrations had to black and white as part of the brief.
Using different types of paper (brown bag, squared, plain and the inside of an envelop) I covered most of the text in the book.
I created this illustration of mushrooms using a traditional dip ink pen.
I then added more ink to add definition, and then added a water wash.


I used LetraSet ProMarkers with the LetraJet Air and ink and water to cover most of the text of the book. I then used this as a background for this illustration of a Silver Donkey. To create this donkey I used the inside of a envelope as a back shade of grey. I then used small pieces of plain white paper to add highlights. To create the darker tones I used the LetraJet Air and a grey ProMarker. to add the final definition I used a grey Stabilo Point 88 pen.

Tuesday 20 September 2011

University

So it begins. Freshers is over and the real work starts.Already 12 hours worth of modules but only 10 hours to fit them in. Is this it then? Is this how the next three years are going to be? And by three years do I even mean three years? One year = 52 week yes? No. One year = 26 week, so instead of 156 week we have 78!
Well here we go!